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Date: 30 April 1994 Opposition: Norwich City British Soccer Wk Sunday Times 30 Date: 30 April 1994 April Observer Opposition: Norwich CIty 1994 Competition: League BRITISH SOCCER WEEK Canaries spoil Kop farewell The last goal scored under Liverpool's Spion Kop was a strike worthy of the occasion - but it came from a player in the wrong coloured shirt. Jeremy Goss drilled a fine shot into the top right-hand corner of the Kop end net after Liverpool only half-cleared a 35th minute free-kick from Ian Crook. Norwich had clearly not read the script of this historic Anfield occasion and always looked the more likely scorers with their quick, incisive football on the break. Steve Nicol had seen his attempted clearance from Efan Ekoku's cross rebound off the underside of the bar and somehow stay out after 15 minutes of a first half dominated by the visitors. David James twice had to race out of his area to clear, once with a diving header from Ekoku and more conventionally with his boot from Chris Sutton. Sutton saw a snap-shot dip over the bar and James made a fine reaction save as Sutton met Ekoku's header with a sweet low volley. Jamie Redknapp shot wide from a tight angle for Liverpool and Robbie Fowler glanced a header wide after fine work from John Barnes, but Norwich keeper Bryan Gunn did not have a save to make in the first 45 minutes. After the break, with Liverpool attacking the Kop end for the last time, by prior arrangement with Norwich, veteran Ronnie Whelan volleyed over from close range. Later a Neil Ruddock shot took a deflection but Gunn reacted superbly to save. Ekoku was halted by a last-ditch Ruddock tackle and Crook curled a free-kick narrowly wide as the visitors provided the more potent attacking force. Three minutes from time Don Hutchison's shot was well held by Gunn and moments later at the other end James did well to beat Ekoku's shot away. Liverpool boss Roy Evans paid tribute to the "magnificent" Kop fans, but admitted that his players had let them down. "We feel we have been the party poopers," said Evans. "Everyone in the dressing room is very disappointed at the result and the way we played. This is a crowd that over the years has seen teams win things. Just imagine what they would have been like today if we had been challenging for the championship. It was a taste for some of the younger players of what this crowd is like. I think they are the best crowd in the world. It was about the Kop today and all our fans, and I thought they were magnificent. It's a pity we weren't in the same class." Norwich boss John Deehan said: "We were worthy winners. I always thought it was a game of football where we had to divorce ourselves from the periphery and all that was going on. We had the right mental approach from the start and everything fell into place." Compiled by Graeme Riley British Soccer Wk Sunday Times 30 Date: 30 April 1994 April Observer Opposition: Norwich CIty 1994 Competition: League Norwich spoil the party - Kop final day at Anfield, but Liverpool's The Kop gives up Shankly's ghost faithful fans find little to cheer about Liverpool 0, Norwich 1 Liverpool 0 Liverpool 0, Norwich 1 (Goss 35) Norwich City 1 (4-4-2): James; Jones, Nicol, Ruddock, Dicks; Clough (Hutchison 71min), Redknapp, Goss 35 Whelan, Barnes; Rush, Fowler. Att: 44,339 (4-4-2): Gunn; Polston, Culverhouse, Prior, Woodthorpe; Bowen, Crook, Goss, YOU could say that the man who really spoiled the party was referee Brian Hill, of Ullathorne; Sutton, Ekoku. Kettering. It was he, after all, who blew the whistle to start a game that Liverpool 0-1 A Norwich free-kick on the edge of Liverpool's area was headed out to Goss, never really looked like winning or even saving. Until he did that, it was a who scored with a rising shot from the edge of the area. marvellous celebration of The Last Day of The Kop. Crowd restrictions kept that Weather: warm. Ground: soft. Referee: B Hill (Kettering). famous stand's all-tickect attendance to 10,000 fewer than in its greatest days, THE MATCH was a bit-player to the occasion. Long before three o'clock, the Kop when 28,000 squeezed in, but, in accordance with tradition, it was packed two was awash with flags unseen since Liverpool dominated Europe. hours before the match, a colourful garden of flags, scarves, banners and noise. Appropriately enough, a succession of Anfield heroes were brought out to the Norwich, respectably mid-table, had nothing much to fight for. Liverpool, not centre circle, some to roars of respect, like Albert Stubbins; others, like Kenny much higher, had the historical imperative of it being the last time they would Dalglish, to roars echoing more recent triumphs. perform in front of their famous stand and a parade of former greats including But the day was about the people of Liverpool and one moment stood above all Billy Liddell, Albert Stubbins, Tommy Smith and Kenny Dalglish. It did inspire them others. At the end of the heroes' parade, and as the teams stood in the centre to a reasonably effective start but the front men, particularly Rush and Barnes, let circle, respectfully facing the Kop, Bill Shankly's widow, Nellie, walked slowly on to them down. the pitch, on the arm of Joe Fagan, Liverpool's former manager. Norwich did not contribute to the party atmosphere, mind, dropping back in On Fagan's other arm was Bob Paisley's wife. The applause from the fans was numbers to soak up any meagre punishment before trying to find their two tall thunderous and the rest of the ground stood in stunned respect as the Kop strikers, Sutton and Ekoku, with the long ball. chanted: ``Shankly, Shankly.'' The party was almost ruined initially by one of Liverpool's own - that normally They broke into You'll Never Walk Alone, the Norwich fans applauded, and Nellie stalwart defender Nicol. Trying to tidy up in the 15th minute, after Ekoku had Shankly, who has been a tower of strength to some of the relatives and friends of outpaced Ruddock, he hooked the ball against his own bar. It dropped perilously people who died at Hillsborough, gazed at the sea of red flags. Her husband, the close to the line but, when it was scrambled clear and punted upfield, the ensuing people's manager, would have thought of those who died, enjoyed the carnival Liverpool counter-attack saw Redknapp shoot wastefully wide. that marked the end of standing at Anfield, and recognised the passion of the play James saved Liverpool twice inside two minutes. He first stopped a close-range that followed. attempt by Sutton, then rushed yards outside the penalty area when he was the Both sides played the only way Shankly knew; with endless movement and utter last man left with a chance of stopping Ekoku's dash for goal. He launched his commitment. Ekoku unleashed the sort of surge down the flank Liverpool once huge frame horizontally to head clear. made their own, and Nicol threw himself so wildly into the path of his cross that But James had no chance in the 35th minute. A free kick from Crook, always the he headed it against his own bar. ``Calm down, son,'' Shankly would have said. He intelligent mastermind for Norwich, was floated in from the right and, although it wanted passion meshed with precision and, thus, would have loved the way was headed out firmly enough, it went only as far as Goss, just outside the Redknapp wrenched the ball out of midfield early on and almost undid Norwich penalty area, and he hammered it back through a crowd of players into the corner by the sort of run and cross-cum-shot that followed. of the net past the unsighted James. Shankly would have loved the way Crook schemed and planted passes forward Norwich had to do a containment job in the second half when Liverpool, playing from Norwich's midfield. He always wanted a thinker in the middle of the strident towards the Kop, were forced into sustained attack. But there was an ominous passion and Crook is a classic example of that. lack of confidence all around. The Kop were reduced to chants evoking the past It has to be said that, for all the near misses in Liverpool's late rally, the game was and it was Norwich who continued to provide the danger. Norwich's. Shankly, of course, would never have acknowledged that, but he might There was a distinct impression that some Liverpool players were passing on the have acknowledged something far more important. responsibility rather than the ball, although Jones had a shot cleared from the line Cathy Thompson lost her husband, Pat, at Hillsborough, in that awful tragedy five and Ruddock had a shot deflected and then saved by Bryan Gunn. The Norwich years ago which took the lives of 96 fans. ``Shankly was wrong when he said keeper - 'proud to become a little bit of history' - became the last of his breed to football was more important than life or death,'' Mrs Thompson said. She stood experience the unique welcoming appreciation the Kop has always extended to on the Kop in the Shankly years, but stopped standing there after seeing it the visitor in a jersey. densely packed in the mid-1970s.
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